Adjusting music levels: Advanced

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Adding music to your Camtasia 9 project can really add polish and interest, but you don't want your tune to trample your tutorial. Corbin Anderson shows you how to adjust the music volume level to enhance, rather than bury, your vocal track.

- [Instructor] I'm going to show you how to tweak your tunes…so they don't interfere with your voiceover.…If you've tried adding music to any of your projects,…you've probably discovered that it can easily override…your vocals and render them completely unintelligible.…The simplest way to handle this is to just lower…the overall volume of the music track.…Like this.…Just going to bring down the volume here to about let's say 20%…and see how that sounds.…- [Voiceover] Corbin, I'll be your guide on this adventure.…

- [Instructor] All right, and that can work just fine…especially if you're in a time crunch,…but if you want to go for a more polished radio sound,…you can use an advanced technique called ducking.…Let me show you this one here on the left.…On the clip on the left, you can see I've made a number of…audio level adjustments to this music track.…What I've done is kept the overall volume low…during the vocal, but raised it up a bit…when there's no speaking part.…This is the ducking.…It just adds a bit of punch to the project.…

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1/11/2017

In this course, Corbin Anderson helps you pick up some sophisticated techniques for capturing and editing movies with Camtasia. As he deconstructs a Camtasia project, Corbin helps familiarize you with the features available in Camtasia 9. View advanced options for capturing your story, including using your smartphone to create media on the go, and optimizing Camtasia settings for your workflow. Organize your project with the media bin and library, polish your movie with audio enhancements, animations, icons, and callouts, and make use of advanced options for producing and sharing your story.